Latest Personal Lines Headlines
All the headlines from our Personal Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Farmers Group in California Names Daly President of Personal Lines
May 22 2018 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Farmers Group Inc. has named Keith Daly president of personal lines. Daly, who is currently Farmers’ chief claims officer, takes the new post effective June 11. He joined Farmers in 2009...
NSM’s Vantage Acquires UK Personal Lines Broker Fresh Insurance in Redditch
May 21 2018 // U.S.-based NSM Insurance Group’s UK subsidiary, Vantage Holdings, has acquired Fresh Insurance Services Group Ltd,. an insurance broker based in Redditch, West Midlands that specializes in non-standard personal lines...
Champion Risk in California Adds Deutsch in Personal Lines
Apr 25 2018 // Champion Risk & Insurance Services in San Diego, Calif. has hired Joseph Deutsch. He is tasked with growing the firm’s high net worth personal lines department. Deutsch has been providing high net worth personal...
Cavignac & Associates in California Names Majam Senior Personal Lines Account Manager
Apr 24 2018 // San Diego, Calif.-based Cavignac & Associates has named Kathy Majam a senior account manager within its personal lines department. Majam serves as the main contact for clients whose accounts she has been assigned, she...
Mapfre’s Wilcox Joins Ohio’s Motorists Insurance as EVP, Personal Lines
Mar 7 2018 // Matthew C. Wilcox has been hired as executive vice president of personal lines at Columbus, Ohio-based Motorists Insurance Group. Wilcox has more than 30 years of insurance industry experience. He most recently served as a...
Personal Insurance Site Gabi Raises $9.5 Million; Now Selling in 6 States
Feb 21 2018 // San Francisco-based personal insurance shopping site Gabi has raised $9.5 million in Series A funding, led by Canvas Ventures. Also joining the round are Correlation Ventures, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, Securian...
Personal Auto Insurance Business Performed Better in 2017: A.M. Best
Feb 1 2018 // The underwriting profitability of the U.S. personal auto line showed signs of improvement in 2017 as rate hikes have been effective against loss frequency and severity trends, according to a new A.M. Best report. The...
Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Enters Personal Lines Segment
Jan 29 2018 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies is now offering homeowners and personal umbrella coverage in Pennsylvania. The product is available through the company’s platform with a target market of one- to...
Verisk’s ISO Personal Lines Program Targets $40 Billion Private Flood Insurance Market
Jan 11 2018 // Things just got a bit easier for private personal lines insurance carriers wanting to enter the flood insurance market. Through its ISO subsidiary, data analytics firm Verisk has launched a new personal lines flood...
Main Street America Group in Florida Promotes Osman to VP of Personal Lines
Jan 11 2018 // The Main Street America Group has promoted Darryl Osman to vice president of personal lines. Osman remains based at the company’s home office in Jacksonville, Fla., and reports to Dan Gaynor, the company’s...
Florida Residential Property Insurer Approved to Do Business in Arkansas
Dec 22 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has granted a Certificate of Authority to a Florida insurer to begin selling residential property insurance products in Arkansas. Gainesville, Fla.-based Tower Hill Signature...
The Hartford Names Bush to Head Personal Lines
Dec 13 2017 // The Hartford has announced that Stephanie Bush, who has led small commercial since July 2014, will expand her responsibilities to include oversight for personal lines. She replaces Ray Sprague, who is retiring after a...
Connecticut’s The Hartford Promotes Bush to Oversee Personal Lines
Dec 12 2017 // The Hartford has announced that Stephanie Bush, who has led Small Commercial since July 2014, will expand her responsibilities to include oversight for Personal Lines. She replaces Ray Sprague, who is retiring after a...
Wells Fargo Closing Down Its Personal Insurance Business
Nov 28 2017 // Wells Fargo & Co. announced it is exiting the personal insurance business and will immediately begin winding down its marketing. The company said the exit process should be completed during the first quarter of 2018....
Canada’s Economical Insurance Names MacDonald Executive VP for Personal Lines
Nov 15 2017 // Economical Insurance in Ontario has named Paul MacDonald as executive vice president of Personal Insurance effective early 2018. Rowan Saunders, president and CEO of Economical, said MacDonald will have profit and loss...
MJ Insurance Appoints New Director of Personal Lines Business Development
Nov 8 2017 // Indianapolis-based MJ Insurance has appointed Chris Novotney director of business development in the Personal Insurance department. Novotney will be responsible for developing strategic sales and marketing initiatives in...
Maine’s MMG Insurance Hires Tawfall as Vice President of Personal Lines
Oct 25 2017 // MMG Insurance, a Presque Isle, Maine-headquartered regional property and casualty insurance company, has hired Eric Tawfall as its new vice president of personal lines. Tawfall will be relocating from Illinois to Northern...
Chubb Appoints Parchment to Head European Personal Risk Services
Sep 14 2017 // Chubb announced that Tara Parchment, vice president, Personal Risk Services, UK & Ireland, has been appointed as head of its European Personal Risk Services division. In this role, Parchment will have responsibility...
State Auto Names Garland, Sr. VP – Commercial; Berkey Sr. VP – Personal Lines
Sep 6 2017 // State Auto Financial Corp., based in Columbus, Ohio, has named Kim B. Garland as senior vice president, commercial lines; and Jason E. Berkey as senior vice president, personal lines. Garland joined the company as senior...
Personal Lines Startup Sherpa Raises $2.3M for UK Launch
Aug 30 2017 // Insurtech startup, Sherpa, announced it has raised $2.3 million in funding from angel investors, in a venture designed to “change the way personal insurance is delivered.” “We have completely re-thought...
